Longer learning projects that celebrate children’s self-expression, build their confidence, and encourage their deeper reflection.

There’s nothing else like this in the UK.

Residential creative writing retreats, taking place in sites of outstanding natural beauty. These visits can bring together children from different schools, to form a new and transformative community of poets.

I run this project mostly with children in aged 8-13, and their teachers.

It is about making poetry, making memories, building our confidence and resilience. It’s finding a love of words, writing and self-expression.

The project gives children a creative and safe space in which to relate differently with each other. All children create writing which we publish in an anthology after the visit.

This project has been running with the five schools of the New Vision Trust in East London since 2016.

I run this project with Glade Primary, Redbridge (Years 3-6) and with Fullwood Primary, Redbridge (Year 4).

As of 2026, I am also Poet in Residence at Gorsefield Rural Studies and Outdoor Activity Centre in Essex, hosting school groups from London and the East of England.

I have led poetry and mythology retreats internationally, in the USA, and am developing them currently in India.

Let’s get mythical!

A six-session collborative retelling of the story of the Trojan War. Supporting children’s learning about Ancient Greece, this project introduces Greek Mythology and Homer’s Iliad. Children act, sing, perform, reflect and philosophise across six sessions.

This project not only deepens children’s literacy, but in an inclusive and rigorous manner, it supports children to find their voice, speak up and develop their confidence. This project works well for children aged 8-10.

I lead the Iliad Project every year at Elmhurst Primary, Nelson Primary, Vicarage Primary, Gallions Primary, Downshall Primary and Glade Primary.

This is also my main international project. I have taught the Iliad Project in the USA, Belgium, Ibiza and in Greece itself!

The Iliad Project fully immerses children into the ancient story, and it is richly sequenced and designed to engage all pupils, irrespective of their literacy level.

The learning design uses theatre, music, philosophical enquiry and groupwork, to gradually take whole-class groups of students towards greater confidence and independence, whatever their starting point.

Learn to write like real writers do.

A five-session project focused on developing and challenging more able writers, aged 9-11 in primary, and 11-13 in secondary schools.

This project brings together students - either from one school or from a small group of local schools - to form a new writing community.

All children have something to say, and it is our role to help them to carve out the space in which to say it. All children can love writing. The bigger problem is the awkward one that we recognise as teachers but feel powerless to address - the way we teach writing in school is often joyless, constrained and tame.

These sessions are grounded in Writing for Pleasure pedagogy, as developed by Ross Young and Felicity Ferguson. My aim is to support children to develop and reflect on their own authentic writer-identities, and to create texts with character, flair and a real purpose.

We explore poetry, essay-writing, fiction and creative non-fiction.

All children contribute to a published anthology of their writing from the Writers’ Lab - all children and schools receive a printed copy as part of the project.